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BorealWormer
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 Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash From allAfrica.com ( link) Quote: "The world urgently needs new and sustainable sources of protein for livestock and fish feed. We have found a perfect alternative. It is called Magmeal and it is made of maggots. It is not particularly a very attractive topic but the product is natural and what chickens eat in the wild."...
... "The fly is king at Agriprotein's pilot plant near Cape Town. The production process starts with breeding stock flies in 22 sterile cages, each holding over 750 000 flies. A single female fly can lay between 750 to over 1 000 eggs per week, which will then hatch into larvae. Larvae go through three life stages in a 72-hour period, and are harvested just becoming pupae. The harvested larvae are then dried on a fluidised bed dryer, milled into flake form and packed according to customers' preferences." That's probably a misquote about 'eggs per week' (as I understand it a single female lays eggs once then dies) but still a good article.
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Tarvus
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash Probably a misnomer about "sterile breeding cages" too! Clean? Probably. Sanitary? Maybe. Sterile? no way!
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PeteB
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash Please remember guys, in this article Agriprotein are talking about Houseflies - Musca domestica, and Green Bottle Flies - Lucilia sericata - not Black Soldier Flies.
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BorealWormer
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash Thanks for the clarification PeteB. It appears they are attempting to do some work with BSF as the article includes this quote from David Drew of Agriprotein Technologies:
"The Sanergy toilet provides about 30kgs of faeces when it is full. We take that out and put eggs on it, grow black soldier fly larvae, which is slightly different from other flies, ..."
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BorealWormer
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash PeteB wrote: Please remember guys, in this article Agriprotein are talking about Houseflies - Musca domestica, and Green Bottle Flies - Lucilia sericata - not Black Soldier Flies. This article is a bit better on clarifying which species are being used in the different operations: Maggots are Turf over Surf animal feed alternative ( link) "AgriProtein Technologies was also conducting research for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in using the wasp-like Black Soldier fly to clean up pit latrines in African slums.
The experiment is seen having multiple benefits: Black Soldier flies lay their eggs on human excrement, and their larvae feed off this, leaving an odourless residue that can be used for fertiliser. The larvae can also be commercialised as protein, in the same way as house fly maggots.
"The idea being that the small entrepreneur can make a third of his money off the municipality by cleaning up the shit in the slum, a third of his money from larvae and a third of his money from fertiliser," said Drew."
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BorealWormer
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash PeteB wrote: Please remember guys, in this article Agriprotein are talking about Houseflies - Musca domestica, ... Here's another operation using House Flies. This time it's for manure processing at a Japanese pig farm. The presenter mentions that it cost over $100,000 to set it up for this one farm which seems very expensive. Thanks go to juan carlos for the link posted on the blog ( link).
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BorealWormer
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash Another article on AgriProtein ( link) Quote: As AgriProtein grows, it will use different flies for different forms of waste. For blood, the house fly family. For meatier "carcase crush", blowflies; and for vegetative waste, the black soldier fly. I found this bit interesting too as I've had problems before with BSF drowning: Quote: They learned that flies, which have a powerful need for moisture, drown with ease. Not just in the buckets of water they initially placed in the fly cages, but because they are hygroscopic - able to attract water molecules from the environment - they can even drown on a wet towel.
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash More about AgriProtein this time in conjunction with Stellenbosch University ( link) and ( link). As per previous posts above they appear to be primarily conducting the mass-rearing of housefly and blowfly larvae into animal feed with some research on BSF. There's an interesting photo of using plastic straws as egg traps for BSF.
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash BorealWormer wrote:
"AgriProtein Technologies was also conducting research for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in using the wasp-like Black Soldier fly to clean up pit latrines in African slums.
The experiment is seen having multiple benefits: Black Soldier flies lay their eggs on human excrement, and their larvae feed off this, leaving an odourless residue that can be used for fertiliser. The larvae can also be commercialised as protein, in the same way as house fly maggots.
"The idea being that the small entrepreneur can make a third of his money off the municipality by cleaning up the shit in the slum, a third of his money from larvae and a third of his money from fertiliser," said Drew."
Now I know what to do with the waste from my illegal composting toilet 
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash jackalope wrote: Now I know what to do with the waste from my illegal composting toilet I've considered trying to incorporate BSFL into an indoor toilet system. It seems like it would be pretty easy since the colony would be climate controlled by default. Hmmm, maybe a new thread... 
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BorealWormer
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash An audio interview (mp3 file) with Jason Drew of AgriProtein Technologies who has written a book "The Story of the Fly and How It Could Save the World"http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/c ... 646127.htmWith thanks to kathrynivey77 ( link) for the link.
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash Many more links to stories about "eco-capitalist" Jason Drew on his site: http://jasonjdrew.com/default.asp?CPH_ID=1743and a TED Talk
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Re: Africa: Turning Maggots Into Cash Africa has more than enough diseases, most of which could probably be transmitted by non-BSF flies. They need to look at the BIG picture, not just the corner of a little snapshot. This could really work with BSF in warmer climates. *I* have to start with being able to keep them alive!  Sue
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